If not already obvious, Rs are coming for Dems with massive ratf*cking of every candidate

When Charlie Pierce says things are going to get ugly - yeah. Things are going to get Virginia/Warren-ugly EVERYWHERE.

Important to remember - conservatives cannot win on the issues. They are desperate to shift the national discussion away from the Green New Deal, marginal tax rates, gun safety, etc. and onto culture war topics and faux hypocritical outrage and whatever else they can scream and shout about on cable news. Eating up news cycle after news cycle. Bewildering voters. Reversing Dem momentum. Depressing voter turnout. Wounding our party and causing all Americans to say "a pox on BOTH your houses." This is how they attack us.

Even today the media is gleefully assisting in a takedown of Amy Klobuchar because she is "mean to her staff." Mean to her staff, allegedly. And they want to take out one of our strong candidates for "mean to staff" when trump is a racist, a rapist.... The media has no intention of playing fair either. The media is going to vet the hell out of our candidates, fed by right-wing sources of propaganda & slander. The media love to look at Dems and wag their fingers and say tsk tsk tsk.

We need a plan for how to deal with this and we need it yesterday. Not just for ourselves. But for the people who are counting on us. Like the Parkland parents. Like the disenfranchised voters of Georgia. Like the victims of the wildfires and hurricanes. A lot is at stake.

NOTE: I am making no comment on what did happen or what should happen in the Virginia cases. I'm just saying, the Rs want chaos and when they get it they win.

"Sweep the leg" is all they know how to do.

Two reading suggestions: It's Time to Fight Dirty by David Faris, and Troll Nation by Amanda Marcotte.

when the right screams about Liberty and Freedom, they mean THEIRS - NOT yours. nt

#WallNuts nt.

Dumbagogue. nt

About 1% of abortions occur after 24 weeks. 1%. #ForestForTheTrees

aka "demagoguery"

why hasn't the media investigated trump's modeling agency for sex trafficking?

There have been a lot of reports that things were not entirely on the up and up.

Instead, they are helping the GOP rat-F Democratic candidates.

isn't trump just re-promising all his "do on Day 1" campaign promises?

trump likes Open Borders, the kind that let foreign dictators pick the American president. nt

Something to think about regarding abortion

The "not your damn business" is a great argument, that the right is very good at ignoring because when it comes to women everything is their business. (#BigGovSucks LOL)

I feel like we should also be making the full Right to Privacy argument.

For example (tweetable):

Roe protects the Right to Privacy. Roe protects women from forced abortions, forced sterilization, forced marriage to a rapist, forced sharing of custody of a rape baby with a rapist. Privacy isn’t negotiable. It’s the right of every American. #GOPRapeCulture #HandmaidsTale

Also:

If the government can force you to carry a baby, it can also force you to abort a baby. We know this is the true goal of conservatives. If this doesn’t scare you - it should. #China #CarrieBuck #AnnHewitt #MadisonGrant #RacialPurity #TomorrowsChildren #RightToPrivacy

The Right to Privacy is critical to ensuring the freedom that the Constitution guarantees to each of us, and it is about more than abortion. Let's stop feeding the right the same arguments and give them something new to deal with.

Mitch McConnell: #StrictObstructionist

Enemy of the Vote